Word: africa
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Colonel Furlong is an artist by profession and has lived a life of remarkable activity, not only in the western section of the United States, but in all parts of the world. It was in 1904, while exploring the northern part of Africa, that Mr. Furlong discovered the wreck of the United States frigate Philadelphia in Tripoli harbor, where it had been since it was sunk by Lieutenant Stephen Decatur of the American Navy just one hundred years before...
...visited among the Indian tribes of the West for a year, and in 1914 he won the world's rough-riding championship by riding the bucking bull "Sharkey." The same year he crossed the Alantic in a 22 ton schooner and proceeded to the north and west coasts of Africa where he explored many islands...
...born in Scotland, in 1875, at Perth, of an old Border family. His mother was a cousin of Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Buchan regards writing as his avocation. He was called to the English bar in 1901. He has seen duty in South Africa-both worked and shot big game there. He has collaborated in writing a legal textbook on taxation of foreign income. He is partner in Thomas Nelson & Sons, one of the largest publishing houses in the world. Nor has he escaped politics; he once stood for his county as Unionist candidate for Parliament. His War career was brilliant...
WHITE CARGO-Grim disintegration of a man who sentences himself to loneliness among natives of Africa...
...proceeded to Canada to conduct conferences at Toronto and Winnipeg. There he was congratulated on the completion of 50 years service, the marks of which he bears with dignity-snow-white hair and snow-white sideburns. He reported new advances of his Army into Brazil, Czcho-Slovakia, Hungary, East Africa, and expressed himself eminently pleased with Commander Evangeline's conduct of the campaign...